eMOLT Update 2023-04-07

This update is a short one since it’s a short week for schools in Massachusetts and my kids will be home all day today.

I’d offer up a warm New England welcome to Linus Stoltz, but we all know such a thing doesn’t really exist. So Linus, have a cold, foggy welcome I guess. In all seriousness, the eMOLT team is very excited that Linus is coming over from the West Coast to join CFRF in Rhode Island as their data manager. He has a bunch of experience working with the crab industry to monitor dissolved oxygen and temperature using very similar technology to what’s in use in DMF’s Cape Cod Bay Study Fleet and those of you in eMOLT with DO sensors and Lowell Deck Data Hubs. We’re looking forward to improving the data pipelines between our programs so that all the information you collect on the water will be that much more valuable to scientists. Linus

We continue to work with the team at Lowell to merge deckbox software. As mentioned in last week’s email, here’s a look at the dimming feature we’re testing with our hardware.

dimming gif

Additionally, we are continuing our effort to make sure the data from eMOLT can be put to use in a range of applications. In this effort, we are also working with other research groups inside NOAA to make sure taxpayer funded data collections are available to the public. Progress on this front isn’t always quick because the amount of red tape (even internal) to go through is substantial, but we are making progress. The 2022 non-realtime eMOLT data were supposed to go live online today, but that’s been pushed back to next week. In the meantime, the data from the last 20 years are available on the NEFSC ERDDAP server here.

Realtime Summary (Vessels with Rockblock Satellite Transmitters)

This week, we received 40 haul-averaged reports from 5 vessels.

Status plot.

In the figure above, you can see the approximate locations where we received “Status Reports” (a ping from your system letting us know that it’s still working) and “Data Uploads” (actual temperature / depth data collected by your probes). The “Status Reports” come in every 12 hours or so when a system is powered up. “Data Uploads” only come in when you haul the probes. If you were out fishing and don’t see your approximate locations on here, please reach out because there may be a problem with your system.

Thanks to an email from Capt. Joe Barrow (F/V Ryan Joseph), we were able to identify a bug in our system that’s causing some vessels to not show up. Please let us know if your vessel seems to be affected as we work to clean that up. Thanks for all of your communication. Your feedback helps us make the system more efficient and resilient.

Bottom Temperature Forecasts

We plan to add more animations to this section with other models in the future

Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System (NECOFS)

NECOFS Forecast

Above, please find the bottom temperature forecasts at one hour intervals from the Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System run by the Chen Lab at the University of Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology in New Bedford.

Announcements and Other News

All the best,

-George and JiM